Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky